bruit
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Exceptions: Your doctor hears a swishing sound, called a bruit, with a stethoscope, or you have had a stroke or mini-stroke.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2009
Adding to the bruit of Clemens' "discov ery" was the inclusion in the Carnegie International last fortnight of his largest group painting, Water Music, which is an inept substitute for a snapshot.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in the bruit of a large city, if one voice cries out above the turmoil, will not a babel of shouts rise from competitors ?
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus far had I won when I heard a little bruit behind me, and looking up, as I guessed, I saw Jack, over my shoulder.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
And they would answer him as they thought good, so by this doing the King heard the common bruit of himself.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by George Reid
She bruits the notion of “an emergency semicolon.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2015
Ans.—No, it iz an alterative; it alters dollars into pence, and men into bruits.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
Faults are descried and magnified; no sympathy is felt for the sufferer, but a vulgar curiosity bruits the ill-natured rumor, and many hearts must hence bleed in their unseen solitude.
From The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
Meanwhile there were bruits of great doings in the north of Lincolnshire.
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley
She immediately bruits it abroad, attracting all the chickens on the farm, and then such another noise, pecking, grabbing and clucking ensues, until the choice bit is torn to shreds.
From Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
The average American probably hears peace talks being constantly bruited and thinks everything is under control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
FDA officials also have bruited the possibility of requiring vaccine manufacturers to modify their shots by this fall to target the omicron variant.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2022
Stars and starlets sought his services, 1950s scandal sheets bruited his name and Mike Wallace grilled him on TV.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2021
Much of the business of “Hollywood” revolves around the question of whether Camille can play the title character — the bruited solution is, hilariously, to change her name to “Meg.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
This leaves plenty of leeway for judgment, depending on whether the writer wishes to emphasize the continuing truth of some idea that was bruited in the past.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Those who are bruiting a new war are few in number though they may have great money power behind them.
From Time Magazine Archive
The early bruiting of Lloyd Bentsen's name looked like a textbook case of strategic leaking.
From Time Magazine Archive
I wasn’t all that surprised he knew our code name the way people were bruiting it about.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
For her to wake up to it only now and run bruiting the stale information would be a ridiculous nuisance—a newsgirl howling yesterday's extra to to-day's busy crowd.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
Soon after this the Oscar Wilde case was bruiting about.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Havelock Ellis
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